PHOENIX  Anthony Bass struck out Aaron Hill with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth Thursday afternoon to pick up his first major league save.

But the right-hander thought there should be a category called the “team save” to cover what happened at the end of the Padres 6-5 win over Arizona at Chase Field.

“It was great to see us all work together and come out with a win,” said Bass. “I’ve never been a part of anything like that.”

Few Padres have.

The Padres used five pitchers in the ninth inning Thursday -- with the last four each facing one hitter – to work their way out of a bases-loaded, none out jam without allowing a run to halt Arizona’s bid for a series sweep.

“It was like watching a video game,” said Nick Vincent, who got the first out in the ninth. “I’m like Anthony. I saw things like that in the World Series last year, but I’ve never been a part of it.”

“This was one of those games that if you said it’s going to come down to five pitchers in the ninth, they’d have said you are crazy,” said Padres manager Bud Black. “This is not how you draw it up.”

Actually, the Padres win represented something Black is opposed to. The Padres manager favors putting limits on the number of players a team can use in a game after the Sept. 1 roster expansion date.

Two of the five pitchers used by the Padres in the final inning Thursday weren’t on the major league roster 20 days ago.

“There was a little September baseball in there and you know how I feel about that,” said Black. “But given the opportunity, go for it.”

And the Padres did while protecting a one-run lead going into the bottom of the ninth.

Chris Johnson led off the Diamondbacks ninth with a ground single to left off Padres substitute closer Luke Gregerson.

What followed was one of the more interesting plays of the game. Pinch-hitter Ryan Wheeler then hit a potential double play grounder between second and second baseman Forsythe. But as Forsythe went to field the ball, it bounced off the tip of his glove and rolled just behind him.

Forsythe tried to reach for the ball while his foot was on the bag, but his foot came off as he grabbed the ball as Johnson slid in safe.

“I just kind of over-ran the ball,” said Forsythe, who was charged with an error on the play. “I tried to be a little too quick.”

With Diamondbacks on first and second and no one out, the wheels began to spin in both dugouts.

Arizona manager Kirk Gibson sent left-handed hitter Jason Kubel up to pinch-hit for rookie left-fielder A.J. Pollock. Black countered by summoning left-handed specialist Joe Thatcher from the bullpen. Thatcher jumped ahead in the count only to walk Kubel to load the bases with no one out.

After Chris Young was announced as the next Arizona pinch-hitter, Black summoned right-hander Nick Vincent from the bullpen. Gibson countered with left-handed pinch-hitter Mike Jacobs. Vincent got Jacobs to pop out to third baseman Chase Headley in foul territory.

With left-handed rookie center fielder Adam Eaton up next, Black summoned left-handed reliever Tommny Layne and pulled the infield way in. Eaton hit the ball at Forsythe, who threw home to force Johnson and redeem his earlier error.

Now it was bases-loaded and two out and Aaron Hill up. Hill homered in the first off Padres starter Clayton Richard. To counter the right-handed Hill, Black brought in Bass – who struck out Hill on a 1-and-2 slider to end the game.

“I like the way the young relievers handled this,” said Black. “Layne and Vincent had less than 30 innings experience. Anthony has poise. We felt good about it. He threw two good fastballs and two good sliders.”

“Until I got in, I was in the bullpen watching it all unfold,” said Bass. “When the call came, I got in the zone. We just kept helping each other out.”

The Padres took a 3-0 lead in the first on a three-run homer by Jesus Guzman and extended their lead to 4-1 and 6-2 on run-scoring doubles by Forsythe, Chris Denorfia and Headley.

But the Diamondbacks scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth against Richard and pulled to within a run in the seventh on Eaton’s first major league home run off Brad Brach.

Black laughed that you probably wouldn’t see such a finish again. Likely not this year. After the game, the Padres announced closer Huston Street will be activated for Friday night’s game in San Francisco.

“I want to finish the season healthy,” said Street, who missed the past six weeks with a left calf strain after missing a month earlier in the season with a strained latissimus dorsi muscle.

“It would have been great to be ready earlier, but then we might not have witnessed that win.”